there's wait commands, which someone else will have to elaborate on.
https://zero-k.info/mediawiki/index.php?title=Wait_CommandIn an FFA, I devised a stratagy as hover. what you do is you put lances on fight move, but also have 2 maces in front of each lance. Achieve this by using guard direction, which you do like circle guard, but with Ctrl held. you can modify guard to keep to a cardinal direction from a unit and you can use guard to keep units in relation to the direction of a unit's facing.
video link for circle guard, 'elaborate on that.'